Karla Sofia Gascón weighs in on Timothée Chalamet's opera and ballet drama: 'Best of luck with the awards'
Karla Sofia Gascón weighs in on Timothée Chalamet's opera and ballet drama: 'Best of luck with the awards'
Kathleen PerriconeMon, March 9, 2026 at 9:34 PM UTC
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Karla Sofia Gascón and Timothée ChalametCredit: Francois Durand/Getty; Julie SEBADELHA / AFP via Getty
Karla Sofia Gascón has entered the chat.
The Academy Award-nominated actress is the latest boldface name to weigh in on the drama between Timothée Chalamet and pretty much everyone who enjoys the performing arts. On Monday, Gascón reposted an Instagram meme that combines a picture of Chalamet’s Marty Supreme character with her own from Emilia Pérez, making it look like they're talking on the phone. The meme is captioned “Hola Karla, do u think they gonna make me pass the red carpet at the Oscars?” — a reference to the PR nightmare the first openly transgender Best Actress nominee found herself in last year after a series of provocative posts from her X account resurfaced.
In the Instagram Story, Gascón added her own commentary. “Are you a Trans woman? Then don’t worry about it, Tim,” she wrote in a large red font.
Karla Sofia Gascón added her own commentary to the Timothée Chalamet memeCredit: Karla Sofía Gascon/Instagram
“Besides, I love ballet slippers and I’ve seen Phantom of the Opera ten times," she continued, adding a sticker of pink ballet slippers. “Not sure if that counts for anything. Best of luck with the awards.”
Below that, in even smaller type, Gascón compared her and Chalamet's controversies.“Even though no one has seen or heard me say anything, while they have both seen and heard you, people still seem to prefer believing whatever the bad guys claim I said."
Gascón previously apologized for her since-deleted posts, which used language that disparaged Islam and contained troubling comments about the murder of George Floyd, diversity at the Oscars, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the COVID-19 vaccine. As a result of the backlash, Gascón skipped the Oscars red carpet in 2025, though she did attend the ceremony.
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Chalamet's remark that "no one cares" about ballet and opera during a February Variety/CNN has sparked a firestorm of criticism from within and without the worlds of those two art forms. The Dune star was called "vapid" and "shallow" by the hosts of The View, and in a now-deleted TikTok video, Doja Cat offered a rejoinder to Chalamet.
"The dancers care, the singers care, the audience cares," she said. "There’s still an audience. People give a f---. You show up in a nice outfit. You sit the f--- down and shut the f--- up. That’s the usual etiquette around those things. Maybe learn something from that."
Meanwhile, an Instagram post from The Metropolitan Opera captioned "This one's for you, @tchalamet… 👀" celebrated the craftsmanship of the company's many performers and artisans.
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Timothée Chalamet appeared on the CNN/Variety town hall with Matthew McConaugheyCredit: Variety/YouTube
A video taken by TikTok user @thealienstookover and reposted Saturday shows Chalamet making a similar statement at a promotional event in 2019.
"No 'woe is me' thing, but you start working on movies, you start acting, pursuing your thing," Chalamet says in the video. "I started getting the sense it was maybe opera or ballet or something, it's kind of like a dying art form or something."
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